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$ g- We suspend for a week the selections from Mr . MAizisfs " Italy , Austria , and the Pone . " Ifext week we purpose giving Mr . Mazzisi ' s concluding appeal to England , and to Europe generally ; together with some comments of our o wn . We have this week to call the attention of our . readers to
another subject . In the last two numbers ox Douglas Jerrold ' s Magazine , there have appeared two articles under the title of " The Eng lishman in Prussia , " in which the writer sets about describing the social , moral , political , and religions state of the people of Prussia , In the first article there was a short account of the famous " Holy Coat ; " but in this month ' s number the subject is more fully treated of , and the expose ofthe shameless frauds committed by the priests on the credulous multitude is so astounding , tbat for the information of our readers we have deemed it right to give it a p lace in our columns .
THE HOLT . COAT AT TBEVES . ( From Douglas Jerrold' s Magazine , for September . ) That the Caliph Haronn Alraschid is really a matter-offact , historical personage , requires a considerable effort for many people seriously to believe , when they call to mind the various ¦ ' extraordinary 5 ' circumstances in which lie plays so conspicuous a part in the "Arabian Sights Entertainments ; " but that his name should ever be brought forward as a secure basis whereon to settle a doubtful question of " authenticity , " could certainly never have entered the imagination of the majority even of the most courteous readers . . Such , however , is the case ; and the " . Commander of the fakhfal" is thc sole sponsor for the genuineness of most of those sacred Christian relics to which millions of Rhenish Catholics constantly bend the knee with prayer and adoration .
The numerous relics of saints , apostles , martyrs , and other holy persons , preserved in the churches of Rhenish Prussia , seem to be fairly traceable back to the time of Charlemagne , who was crowned Emperor of the "West in ihe year 800 . The sacred hits of wood , hones and rags , ore undoubtedly a thousand years old . So far , they are genuine , —and -valuable . They were all collected by Charlemagne , and the majority came to him directly from the hands of the Caliph Haronn Alraschid . finding tbat the devout Emperor set a great value on such things , the friendly and magnanimous calip h took care to supply tarn with many rare presents . It is not improbable that Giaffir and Ifesrour had " standingorders" to procure every extraordinary curiosity of this kind that could be beard of ; with any likelihood of its being genuine—or p lausible .
The depressed and stapified countenances of thelthenisb peasantry have been in a great measure attributed ( in "So . 3 . of this series of papers ) to the influence of gross superstition ,, as their meagre and unenergetic bodily condition has been chiefly attributed to their very poor and insufficient diet . That these opinions have some good foundation may be shown by the evidence of the collateral feet , that the peasantry of . the north o £ Germany are a comparatively fine , handsome , able-bodied race ; they are better fed , and they have none of the gross superstitions so universal in the Rhenish provinces . The established religion of northern Germany is the Protestant . The political despotism is the ' same , butnotthemental : and , as the peasantry of all countries are unlikely to trouble their heads with politics , the influence is not seen in the expression of their faces , except asit affects their physical condition . It is the despotism over the soul that strikes the deepest marks in ihe countenance of tbe Rhenish
Jieasantry . "While alluding to the various objects of the superstitious reverence and idolatry of the people inhabiting the lastmentioned province , and before we procead to the deplorable sequel of the history of the Pilgrimage to the Holy Coat at Treves , it may be as wsll to give the reader a passing glance at a few other relics , now inconstant exhibition , in order to show him that the above holy garment is no wonderful exception , or accident of the time , but only a part of a regular system , and tbat he may see the actual state of intelligence among the working classes at this present day in these most fertile and populous
pro-. The cathedral of Cologne is quite a museum of sacred relics and remains , monuments and muniments , pictures and painted windows ; and the church on the Ereuzberg , near Bonn- ( in the vaults of which lie the mummies of fotue score of devout monks ) , has also a very broad marble staircase , in every step of which relics are enshrined behind a small lattice-work of wire , and no one is permitted to ascend or descend , except by walking , or rather crawling , upon his knees . Many other places , rich in possessions of this kind , crowd to our recollection , and would be likely io confuse any attempt to enter upon a few particulars ; but , fortunately , a little book is within onrreaeh , written in Prench , and containing an account :
¦ ofthc-reKraaepositeainthe cathedral of Aachen ( Aix ) , founded , as was the city itself , by Charlemagne . The relics of one cathedral have a strong family likeness to those of most others , and . a peep at tbe relics in Aix irill be the most appropriate , after what has already been said of the friendly munificence of Haroun Alraschid . The title of this little book is sufficiently lengthy and explicit— "Tresor d'Ahs-la-Chapelle ; ou , coarte Description des Saintes Beliques , qui out etc recneffiies par le tres-glorieux Empereur Charlemagne , et ensuite placees dans la basUigue de >" otrc-Dame d ' -lix-la-Cliapelle , ofl elles sont conservecs et exposees publiquement tons les sept ans a la veneration des fideles "
It should be observed , by the way , that these " treasures" of Aix-la-Chapdle do not consist only of those things gent from Arabia by the " Commander of the PaithfuV' but many of them , were presents from Greek emperors , the Empress Irene , and from Christians in the East , who regarded Charlemagne as their benefactor , he having forwarded considerable sums of money for the reUef of those who suffered under the tyranny of the Saracens in the Holy land . "Knowing , therefore , " * ars tbe book before us , "his extraordinary piety , and
his love for all religions objects , they sent to him . from all parts of Palestine , of the East , from Borne , aud other parts of Italy , from Africa , aud from Spain , the most important relics . These he has distributed and placed in different collegiate ' churches and cathedrals , which he caused to be built , as prov « d by the letters patent which he granted to these churchei . But he had a particular predilection for the church of Hbtre-Dame In Aix-la-Chapelle , which was the chapel of his court , and he enriched it with the most precious relics . " Here are a few of them : —
I . The white robe in which the Holy Tirgin was attired in the stable at Bethlehem , when she gave birth to the Saviour ; it is of cotton cloth , of about five and a half feet long ; whence wi may conclude , with Sicephorus and Epiphanios , that the Holy Tirgin « oa » tall of stature . H . The swaddling clothes , which are spoken of in the 21 th chapter of St . Luke . They are of a deep yellow colour ; ( d ' un drapjanne , tresfonce ) as coarse as felt , bat woven . III . The linen upon which St . John the Baptist was decapitated , or rather , in which his body was enveloped and carried away : Matt . adv . 12 ; Hark vL 20 . This tiiu-n is ali catered with Wood .
Thelittle book from which we quote is declared to be published " avec permission des Superieurs ; " and at the back of the title-page , we read , Vu , et approuvepar Sons , Aix-la-Chapelle , le 13 Mars . Fonck , Vic , grlis . " 5 ow , if it be really true that this was published with e"cli permission , and had been seen and approved by the Sgnitary Pouck , the supervision must have been very « % ht which could allow the 24 th chapter of Luke to be referred to , instead of the 2 nd , ( for the 24 th refers to the "iitifcdon !} and the 20 th verse of the 6 th chapter of St -k ^ t , instead of the 29 th verse . In any case , this shows < katthe compilers thought that anything would do for be worshi ppers of these Treasures . There was no need 10 be particular . IT . The linen which was wound round the Saviour on tbe eross . The marks of the precious blood are visible "Ff tit tc .
• - A reli quaire ( shrine for relics ) , which contains : — 0 . ) The point of one of the nails with which our Saviour was fastened u pon the Cross . ( 2 . ) A bit of the wood of he Holy Cross , upon which he was crucified . ( 3 . ) A toofliof St . Catherine . ( 4 . ) The great bone of one arm « Charlemagne , from the elbow to theshonlfler . J - J dl the most important of the relics contamed m this church were deposited there by Charle . ™> Sne , we might be tempted at first to imagine that in a womeut of enthusiasm he had sent them this great bone w we of his aims ; it win , however , be more rational , on l ^« fr ^ teafion ' <* exminethat this relic was coleciea for him , after his death , and placed among the rest « ff the hands of some devout monks ? « r , " * ^ fcw more » Reeled from a great variety , all w a similar kind . K . Some hair of John the Baptist . A rib of St . St 3 * en , the first martyr , & c .
cnchLf ? ln 3 neof S « a 4 f enriched with unpolished stones , snii ^ Z , wWch " P " 1 of tte «»*&• whicb - w WT r * bloodof St . Stephen ; also afew of his tha .. * , pon ttis * brine the King of tbe Bomans took XIH a * hU coronati ° - " * a « an < . ' v Caskct of Bold , ranched , with jewels , con-« ana ° , ? fthe anncf St Simeon . Above this casket fltoredHf hia 1 ' containu 3 8 sonie oil wMimmiracnloosly ^ from the bones of St . Catherine . <* thed ? Ventnred * ° * sk a question , in a humble tone , TfiEc wbm - officiaI whowas cinill i > ° nr attention to this ^ n ^ ur h BhInsthe church , he cut short all further i Haro " to « senlB S that - " it . 'wa 5 one ' of the presents a anth - ascWd Mli was , therefore , of unquestion-« ff aav | " % - " The caliph would no douhthave cut a - atfS head in a mwnent who had attempted to Jir tj . " Qsei ««/ otherpart of the arm of Charlemagne , from ^**> tbe elbow . & Loais ax ^ leMnt that itSs " otIler part" waB Eent by * HSL ' S of Jrance , who caused it to be enshrined
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The most important relics are only exhibited in public onse during seven years ; the rest are in daily course of display . Chapter it . of thelittle book quoted , is thus headed : "Avec quelle devotion on doit visiter et honorer les saintes Rdiques . " = It contains a variety of prayers , suUei to the different relics which are exhibited , and to be used on those occasions . -We forbear to quoteany of them—and , if the truth must be told—out of respect and reverence , even to the superstition . Whatever there may be absurd and derogatory in these adorations , they neverthelessbreathe a tone so sincere , so devout , so fullof faith , and often so pathetic , that it is scarcel y possible to read them without emotion . And thisis equally the case with regard to many of the almost innumerable prayers which have been written for the exhibition of the Holy Coat at Treves . One of there ( nre forbear to translate it for the reason jast adduced ) ' thus commences : —
Omein Jesus Mm hoehste gotfliche Hebe ! entziinde meinnerzmitdemPeuer Beiner heUigen Iiebe , damit ich DicbmeinenGottunaufhbrlich Hebe . O liebevoller Erloser ! Dn hist . liir nns am Kreuzein den grossten Leiden gestorben , urn unssinen Beweis Deinerliebe zu geben . Aber ach , wiewenigwirstDuvon uns undaukbarenMenschen geliebt , & c . But another passage from one of these ( entitled " GebetebeiderAnschauung desheili gen Roches" ) being of a more calmly impassioned and profound character the follovf ing translation is offered : — ' "Thy holiest name , Jesus , be my light , when my nerves of sight are broken- , thy holiest lame , 3 esus be enthroned in my heart , when mine ears can hear no more ; thy holiest name , Jesus , be in my thoughts , when my tongue grows stiff with coming death ; and when , at last , my soul separates itself from my body , then be thy holiest name , Jesus , my last sigh in this world , and my first word on awaking in eternity . "
It will , however , be readily understood , that while many of these prayers induce a profound feeling of reverence ( to the divine object , —not , of course , to the article in question ) , there are many which shock by their gross ignorance , or induce a feeling of the ludicrous . We have seen some of these prayers and addresses containing such expressions as ,- '' Holy Coat , help us : ""Sacred Shirt , envelope our souls "' "Blessed Frock of our Lord , relieve us of these afflictions 1 " & c , & c . The reader being now in full possession of the materials of superstition so deeply and extensively operating at this day throughout the populous provinces of Rhenish Prussia , let us proceed to the melancholy sequel and consequences \> i the Pilgrimage to the Holy Garment at Treves .
The poor people , by teus of thousands and hundreds of thousands , trooped off to Treves , each according to his means ; some with ample means of- sustenance for the time , and conveyance for the journey ; others without sufficient means of any kind , though they had sold all they possessed in order to go . Many stood in absolute need of assistance by the way there , and far many more could never have got back at all without assistance . As it was , the majority of the poorest returned in a most wretched condition—exhausted , thin , ragged , half-starving , and with scarce a shoe to their feet . Yet , for the
most part , they came back praying aloud as they slowly staggered and crawled along , so much were they sustained by the fanaticism which possessed them . Many of the oldest died ; but they died rejoicing , and their relations and friends felt their grief alleviated when they recollected it was in such a cause ! How melancholy tbat all ' ihis amount of self-devotion , this sacrifice of all outward and . perishable things to an internal principle , should be thus misapplied and wasted ! But governments are all alike in their neglect of the means they possess of turning the elementary principles of humanity into good .
In saying that many of these poor people sold all they possessed in order to make this Pilgrimage , we mean so literally , and including all they had reserved : to support them during the winter . One poor man , who was afflicted with sciatica or lumbago , and could not walk , sold his little field and some other things for thirty thalers , to be taken as far as possible in a cart , Be expected to be completely cured , b y praying to the holy garment . To his infinite astonishment and misery , and that of all his relations and friends , he returned as ill as he went ! The surprising intelligence having rapidly spread , a shrewdly devout person suggested to him tbat perhaps the man who drove the cart might not
have been a true Catholic . Inquiry'was made . The carter was -not a true Catholic of the Church' of Borne . He was no Catholic at all . The investigation was now carried to the utmost point . The man ' s father was a Jew ! As for the man himself , he was found to be nothing ; but he had Jewish blood in his veins , and this was clearly the reason why the poor sufferer with sciatica had returned without being enred . Be called all his remaining energies together , sold whatever remained , borrowed all he could of his poor relatives , and hiring another cart , with an undoubted Catholic to drive it , performed the Pihnimage a second time ! Need we say he returned as before?—need we record the sad end of this infatuated sufferer !
The money and provisions which the peasantry had reserved to support them during the winter having been thus wasted , thousands of them were soon reduced to a state of want and deplorable wretchedness . If the last winter was hard and of long duration in England , it . was far worse in Germany ; in fact , there were two winters in immediate sequence , or with only two or three days' intervals of sun and thaw , f oUowed by heavy rains . The accumulation Of snow hi some of the most frequented throughfares in several cities and towns was so great that when it hardened and settled down into ice , it formed a superstratum of tivo feet , and in some places three feet , over the pavement . It is the custom hot to remove this tiU the winter is quite over , the composed Germans sagely reasoning that if they clear their doorways or the horse-way before the winter is over , they may have to do it a second time ! When , therefore , there did
at last come a general and final thaw , all this mass of iced snow was converted into a stream of dirty water , with which the streets flowed from one end to the other , in some places the streets being quite impassable without wading directly through . This was the case in Cologne , in Bonn , and more especially in the villages . At this period the condition of the peasantry was most lamentable . Having expended all their means , and therefore being without money , food , sufficient clothing , or fuel , they were in a state of absolute starvation during the prolonged frost , and were only saved from death by individual and public subscriptions . What must the fanatics and impostors among the clergy , who had inflamed the imaginations and passions of tbe peasantry to undertake that ruinous Pilgrimage—what must they , if they thought at all , have thought of themselves and their preaching , when they witnessed ah this misery which they had produced .
But the worst was yet to come . While the general thaw at the close ofthe winter was covering the streets of the cities and towns with water and slush , it was rapidly at work upon the mountain snows , and tbe snows en aU the hills along the borders ofthe Rhine , and of the hills beside the rivers in the valleys . A stream of melted snow soon began to flow down into the Bhine from all the neighbouring heights , and this stream soon swelled to a torrent ; the ice at the same time began to break up at Mainz ( Mayence ) , Bingcu , aud Coblentz , and down it all came in huge masses completely covering all the surface of the broad river , floating rapidly onwards , aud with the certainty of never stopping till it reached Holland . Day after day , unceasingly , and througout the night , did this flowing down of mountain-streams continue , together with the continuous floating down the Bhine of the great flat masses of ice , in one grand and
apparently endless succession . It looked as if the winter palace of Time had been broken up , and was being carried away in his accelerated course toward oblivion . The river began to rise , first a few inches in every twenty-four hours— then a foot every night—then a foot and a half—and it overflowed its banks on all sides ; till one night it was found to have risen nearly three feet , and the alarm had of course become general . The Bhine had now risen upwards of ten feet , and the country on both sides was under water . All the fields and adjacent villages were under water , and aU the streets of the towns that led down to the river . The peasantry were Bying in all directions , and as they retreated to the nearest village , it was soon found necessary for the inhabitants of that village to fly also , thus carrying with them an accumulation of terror and distress and starvation , to the next village , the inhabitants of which hourly expected to be under the same necessity for flight .
A few remained whose houses happened to be larger than the rest , aud had a floor above the ground-floor , into which some of the family retreated to stand "the siege . " But the besiegers were too strong , and as the waters rose , the occupants were again obliged to retreat into the next floor above , if their house had another floor ( which only a few in each village generally have ) and if it had not , they were compelled to escape in boats . Villages which had previously been seen from the opposite side ofthe river , standing upon green banks or bright graveUy soil , with rows of trees along the banks at the river ' s edge , were now only discoverable by the tops of things—little church spires , roofs , chimneys , top stories , tops of trees , Ac : in front aU was water , with water aU around , and water beyond . Tha -villages on the other side of the river , opposite to Bonn , were more especiaUy in this nearly obliterated position , as observedby the inhabitants
from the Alte Zoll , from the high houses , from the high grounds at the back of the town , and from the top of the large gallery of the old windmiU in front , which during the whole of one Sunday was thronged with successive crowds Of spectators . The remaining inhabitants who were still "holdingout " inthesecondfloorsoftbemuudated villages , were supplied with food by boats from Bonn . It was a common thing at this time to see large boats afloat half-way up two or . three of the streets of Bonn , taking in bread from a baiter ' s shop . One of the first of these bread-hoats was engaged by some English residents , whorowed away forthwith to the inundated villages , plying " in aud out" among the roofe and chimneys and other " tops of things "to distribute bread , and relieve in other ways the occupants of upper floors , or other uuromantic Venetian situations . " The fanatic clergy who had excited the poor to their ruinous Pilgrim ase were by no means eguaHy " prominent" oaany ot
these occasions . - »• ! "When the inundation was quite gone , the : devastation j it had committed upon these poor little villages was but ; too visible;—houses and cottages unroofed , or with the ; lower part so injured that they would not ; be safe to live , ; in , and required to berebuilt ; many , cottages completely j "gutted , " or with only the upright posts or pileSj . aeft ^ standing , and some had been completely swept ^ way . j . Jt j will be readily an derstood that these were , casesvof total : loss ; the poor people had no "insurances ^ nor food ,, nor money , nor place to lay their heads , nor ctotijes , nor
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implements of trade , craft , or husbandry . They were only saved from death by subscriptions which were raised throughout the whole of Prussia , the lists beginning with the King ( though tha subscriptions actually began , with the merchants and other private individuals ) , and immediately followed by ' the nobiUty , army , merchants , English residents , and , indeed , by the principal inhabitants of all the cities and towns , according to their several means . What must the poor people have thought of such a calamity as this inundation following their recent Pilgrimage to "the Holy CoatTand what must they have thought of its healing " and preserving properties , if their minds bad been nt libert y to think of the matter .
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within that land was many a malcontent , Who curs'd the tyranny to which he bent ; The soil full many a wringing despst saw , Who wovk'd his wantonness in f Mm of law . Byron . "A people among whom equality reigned , would passess everything they wanted whers they possessed the means of subsistence . Why should they pursue additional wealth or territory ? No man can cultivate mora than a certain portion of land . "— Godwin . "So one is able to produce a charter from heaven , or has any better title to a particular possession than his neighbour . "—Paley . "There could be no such thing as landed property originally . Man did not make the earth , and , though he had a natural right to occupy it , he had noright tolocate as his property in perpetuity any part of if ; neither , did ' the Creator of the earth open a land office , from whence the first title deeds should issue . "— Thomas Paine . Theland shall not be sold tor ever . —Moses .
There is no foundation m nature or in natural law why a set of words upon parchment should convey the dominion of land . " - _ JSIacJ . stoiie . _ " The land or earth , in any country or neighbourhood , with everything in or on the same , or pertaining thereto , belongs at all times lo the living inhabitants of the said country or neighbourhood in an equal manner . - For there is no living but onlandandits productions ; consequently , what we cannot live witliout , we have the same property in as in our lives . " —Thomas S pcnce . ; -, " Thelandis thepeople ' siuheritance ; ; yid kings , princes , peers , nobles , priests , and commoners , . who have stolen it from them , held it upon the title of popular ignorance , rather than upon any right , human or divine ;"—Feargus O'Connor ,
" My reason teaches me that land cannot bo sold . The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon , and cultivate , as far as is necessary for their subsistence ; and so long as they occupy and cultivate it . 'they have the right to the soil—but if they voluntarily leave it , then any other people have a right to settle upon it . Nothing can be sold , but such things as can be carried away . "—Black Hawk . "Every individual possesses , legitimately , the . thing which his labour , his intelUgence ( or more generally ) , which his activity has created . ^ " This principle is incontestable , and it is well to remark that it contains expressly an acknowledgment ofthe right
of aU to the soil . For as the soil lias not been created by man , it folfows from the fundamental principle of property , that it cannot belong to any small portion of the human race , who have created it by then * activity . Let us then conclude that the true theory qf property is founded on the * creation of Vie thing possessed , ' "—Fourier . " If man has a right to light , air , and water , which no one wiU attempt to question , he . has a right also to the land , which is just as necessary for the maintenance of his subsistence . If every person had an equal share of the soil , poverty would be -a ^ k nown in the ' . world , and crime would disappear with want . "—Hike Walsh .
" As the nature and wants of aU men are alike ,, the wants of all must be equal ; and as human existence is dependent on the same contingencies , it follows that the great field for all exertion , and the raw material of all wealth , the earth , is the common property of all its inhabitants . "—John Francis Bray . ¦ ' " What monopoly inflicts evils of such magnitude as that of lurid ? It is the sole barrier to national prosperity . The people , the only creators of wealth , possess 'knowledge ; they possess industry ; and if they possessed land , they could set aU other monopolies at defiance ; they would then be enabled to employ machinery for their own benefit , and the world would behold ' with delight and astonishment the beneficial effects of this mighty engine , when properly directed . "—Author of die "Reproof of Brutus . "
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PROGRESS OF AGRARIANISM IN AMERICA . _ A press of other matter has forced us to forego the insertion of several articles under this head which we had prepared ; and has also caused us to keep back certain information we possessed as to ' the efforts of our American friends to free tlie public lands in tbat country from the jobbers and speculators , by making them really national property . As we have a mass of intelligence before us , relative to their recent proceedings in their agitation for the restoration of tho land to the people , we think we cannot do better , in recommencing tho series of articles on this question , than make known the progress which this greatest of questions has made . We have several copies of Young America and the Albany Freeholder , before us . "We commence our extracts from the first of these papers .
The National Rkfohm Association of New York has continued to holi weekly meetings for the promulgation of its views and objects . It appears that some of the members contemplate emigrating to the public lands at present unoccupied , and there forming free townships , under tho auspices of the Association . Other members contemplate a like proceeding in the Oregon territory . Some of tho speakers , wo perceive , advocate the forming of the Oregon territory into an Independent Republic . The state of . Old England forms a fruitful theme for tbe speakers in illustrating their arguments against land-monopoly and its evils . At one of the meetings the following speech was delivered by a " son of the ocean , " who , it seems , in the course of his wanderings o ' er the " deep , deep , sea , " has touched at ( what might be , and what shall be ) our " right little , tight little , Island . Hear him : —
Capt . Kempxon , of Frankfort , Maine , said—Mr . President , ladies , and Gentlemen : The importance of this cause will be sufficient excuse for its humble advocate . Had I tat still , my heart would have been more than eloquent in its advocacy . I come fromithe north-eastern part of Maine , from a town once owned chiefly by " proprietors , " and a large portion of which had been granted to Gen . Knox for his revolutionary seiviues , It was afterwards sold to individuals . There I first breathed the breath of life . My ancestors bought a settler ' s right ; but in t ' ie language of a previous speaker ( Mr . Manning ) who so feelingly described a visit in search of hisfather ' shomestead , " wheie is their rightnow V In placeof ploughingmyfather's field , I have been doomed to plough the ocean . The measure proposed by the National Reformers , as to justness , appears self-evident to every rational mind . I cannot forbear to ask , in the name of Heaven , how the poor are to
enjoy the rights of " life , libertyi « adthe pursuit of happiness , " if capital and avarice are to be allowed to stretch forth their long arms and monopolise the means from which those blessings flow I ( Cheers . ) Tho opponents of your great measure claim to be great sticklers for morality : so are we . Do they expect morality where there is great inequality ? It cannot be .. A sailor to India , for instance , gets 10 dollars a month , and that is above rather than below the estimate ' : 120 dollars for twelve months' subjection to hardship and intolerance ; for although a ship master myself , I must say that such is the condition of sailors . Now , suppose a sailor has a wife ( and a sailor has as good a right to a wife as another man ) , what must be his situation with a family in the port of New York t When in port , he can only be home at night , and he has 120 dollars to provide food , clothing , house rent , and fuel , while it is impossible to get decent houseroom alone for 100 dollars ! His children cannot
go to school , because their clothing is not fit for them to appear in ; and if that sailor has a daughter , what must be her situation under such circumstances as she grows up , with no prospect but a factory or one place worse ? There is no concealing the fact that the oppressed situation of seamen , whether married or compelled by an unjust policy to remain single , is a most fruitful source of crime . But the wealthy are opposed to reform , and so we can't have morality ! Wherever there is most equality , there is most morality . At Cape Cod , where each seaman owns a house , in their fishing voyages they work and share ahke ; and there is a good state of morals , and the people are happy and contented . If we appeal to history , we shall find tbat as a people suffer their liberties to be encroached upon immorality and crime prevail in proportion . In England , where , of a population of thirteen
millions , thirty thousand are allowed to possess all the soil , there are thousands of starving beggars and hundreds with their carriages and six and every luxury . I have been there and seen the condition of things , and in many other foreign parts . In that country it is well known , William of Normandy partitioned the plundered soil among 700 of his Barons ; and the state of things produced by the perpetuation of that system of plunder will be produced here , and our children wear the yoke of bondage , unless this Association and its auxiliaries be powerful to prevent it . In this there is no mistake . ( Loud applause . ) Wearetold there most be f actories for our surplus labour . But look at the factory
system in Manchester and Leeds . See the sickly girlot her incessant toil , the breezes of heaven never allowed to fan her feverish brow , and salt and potatoes for her scanty meali Is this the refnge of our surplus labour ? It makes one ' s blood boil to think of it . Go to'Rhode Island . There we see how loth men are to part with illgotten power , i The time is now to effect a reform , while we have the ballot and can effect it without bloodshed . ( Cheers . ) But if things should go on iu the same tram , no change can be effected without a resort to physical force . This la clear enough . ( Applause . ) We find here already , an aristocracy looking down npon thrpro j ducers of wealth as the "lower classes , " - a phrase l
abominate S Is not a working man as high in statue as a broker in WaU-street « When tho clash of arms was heard , and mtade was required , who , then , sustained the Struggle ? I have been astonished at the lukewarmness with which men wiU sustain fourteen or fifteen hours' ; daily toil ; but I have come to the conclusion ; that ( hey are not yet su ^ cienily enlightened . Let us ; arouse the press , and you might as well attempt to chain the Atlantic wave asto atiempt to stay the progress of this reform . ( Applause . ) "This . is my first appearance in a meeting oi thi g _ de 8 Cription . I met with one of your papers , read every word of it ^ and was delighted to find so much in accordance with , my own sentiments . For one , I have determined to do all in my power to advance this cause ( Loud cheers . ) Being master of : a vessel , I cannot be much on shore , but I am determined to take your pledgi and lecture upon it in my native State . ( Great applause .,
Though her mountains are . long covered with a SHOT mantle , and her springs congealid in ice , yet the war gosh of human affection flows In many a noble heai -whose possessors irill put thebt ehouldersto the whe
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: ££ '' ££ } Wr-y' * 'ft ^"• • • ' ¦ --.. . ; -.- ¦ ' ..- . .-.: . Ty ..- ! -. ' " —~ T ~ " ~" and drfiverttecVb ^ ( Greatapplause . ) ^ V : ; , ! -. ,.. ¦¦ . ' i ¦ -. . Bravp , . Captain Jii teioN!—wo wiiji our gallant Bntish . tar 8 wouldtatcci'tfleaf out of your log ; there is much need of it- \ \ y "; •; ; ,., >;•" ; The Land mbvohientin ' ifiis ' counlfy ^ as attracted the attention of tho' / AhfeWoitfjRemrmera . At one of the association'ffif * tffi ]^' £ & % & ; v " ; ^ r ^ Am fi & a ; MWj ^ B } Mi ^ rfl ' . Sldr , an account of the proceedings' 6 f J the '^ palg-bOitional Reformers of England , with ^ a ^ l ^ p ^ JIpiuVg the right to the soil of which the pe ^ fr ^^ VnM 5 S ; liave been so bar . bnrously plundered ; , ' l | h | ^ 8 ||]|^ r . ' N ' ational lUfown party , he said , had 'ffllLrace ^ tiSfiffi ^ cohtending for the right of suffrage ; ' without ' looM ^ K ^ a . much more important use of that right tha ; n ^ % dUoe the taxes ; but now that they have discovered ' that by it they might restore » fundamental natural right , " he anticipated that we should soon L ' eiir of a rapid increase of the Chartist party .
•; : Mr . J -Bovny "' fhen ' said he had purposely avoided s ' pe akingof the great measure ofthe age ; but it had been incidentall y discussed by the reading ofthe highly interesting proceedings of our brethren across the water . Those proceedings were sure harbingers of brighter days for the toilers of England , and ofthe world . Be sometimesdesponded , ' under the apathy of the people to their true . interests ; and when he did so he spoke what he felt , as he should do on all occasions . He would rather die for the truth than live for error . ( Great applause . ) ^ Ixi Young America of June ftk , we find the following :
Nationai , Reform in England . —By the recent numbers of this paper , it has been seen that the trades of England , in National Convention assembled , have decided that it is to tjttlnnel they must look for effectual relief , Since the National Convention of the Trades , the Chartists , top , have held a National Convention , and they also have decided that the land is tho natural refuge for the surplus labour which is continually-depressing the useful classes . Other bodies have adopted the same rational view of tbe case ; and the best menus of regaining their right to the soil is fast becoming tho absorbing topic of the millions of England . That best of all papers , tint London Northern Star , the proprietor of which is himself a practical agriculturist , teems with interesting information on this subject , which cannot for want of room be
transferred to our columns . The following petition for a partial restoration of the soil , was adopted , on the 6 th of May , at a large public meeting at the South London Chartist Hall , Bhckfriar ' s-road . Here follows the petition which has already appeared ; in our columns . In the same paper of June 2 Sth ,. thDre are the following editorial remarks . The strictures on the press apply just as truly to tlie journals ef'this country as to those ofthe States ;—Fkeb Soil Movement in England . —Two things 1 am in difficulty about . The first is , as ts the means of informing ; the people of this country of What is going On in England towards a recovery of the soil of England by the people ; the second , how to convince thinking men that their , efforts are to be successful , and that at no distant day . - And yet , feeling as sure that this glorious result is approaching , as did Columbus ofthe existence of this continent when he saw the signs of land on the ocean ,-I know it is my dvAy t « . do - «» at \ can to impart the information before me and Inspire the belief I entertain . ¦ -.. . '
In the first place , this sheet is not large enough , were it all . devoted to the subject , to give an account ofthe movements of the ! English mechanics and operatives'having special reference to the recovery of the soil . In the next place , would it be believed , that a movement of this nature , adopted ; ' by two National Conventions representing nearly all the working classes in England , and followed by local bodies of trades ; will it be believed that only one paper of general circulation inEngland records or even notices tllis greatest movement of modem times , aud that not one paper in this country to which the people are accustomed to look for foreign news , even mentions it ! Yet such is the fact .
On the arrival , of every steamer , our people are entertained with all the twaddle and puerilities of the courts ; how Mr . Such-a-one , who represents this Republic at a salary of GOOD dollars ( which is not half enough for him ) was presented to the monarch ; what an "interesting " situation the king-breeders are in ; what is said and done , r . nd what is not said and done , about Oregon , Texas , and California : all this , and much more of a like important kind , is duly recorded and scattered over the country by our faithful press , with all imaginable speed , because these are the things that concern the Thirty Thousand who hold the stolen land of England ; but not a word about , the movemant of the Thirteen Millions to recover the possession of their property ! This is news with which the toiling millions of America ( whose land is fast sliding from under their feet ) have no business , is it % We shall see .
In an early number of this paper , I have said , and have repeated it subsequently , that the people of England only needed to be informed , first , that there is an abundance of land in England to furnish a much larger population than the present , every soul of them , with the necessaries and comforts of life , and next , that they had a right to the . land equally ( a thing not dreamed of by the mass of . them ); , that they needed only to be informed of this , and united upon it as the people of Ireland are united on the comparatively trifling question of Repeal , and the right tiiey would have . > Vhen I first said this , with a full confidence that the people would be so informed , and would obtain their right , had I been asked how much progress the cause was likely to make up to this point of time , I should not have said the half of what it actually has made , Through the indefa'igiible and patriotic exertions of one man , Feargus O'Connor , with the best paper in the world ( tho Northern Star ) , and a ., member of Parliament ( Mr . Buncombe ) at his back , the working classes are now organising and perfecting their organisation for a recovery ofthe soil .
I am . eompolledto break off for want of room ; but next week shall devote a large portion of this paper to the information which so intimately concerns the people of this country , but of which our city presses think it necessary to keep them in total ignorance . In accordance with the above promise , we find in the next number of Young America , tliree letters ( copied from tins paper ) , addressed by Mr . FEAnous O'Connor to " the working classes" and "trades " of England . The Editor makes the following commentary on Mr . O'Connor ' s letters : — The Land . — -In to-day ' s paper will be found three letters ofthe proprietor ofthe Northern Star , taken from the three last , received uumbers of that paper , which will show in part the progress ofthe free soil movement in England . I shall hereafter endeavour to give an idea of the
movements of the trades on this momentous subject , ' which , apparently , thc " machinepresses" of this country have resolved to keep in the dark . The . trades throughout England are forming Land Associations , in accordance with the recommendation of their National Convention , which decided that a location of the surplus labour on the land is better policy than strikes . In consequence of this movement , the Park-holders , beginning to see ahead , are condescending to ploy cricket with mechanics and country clowns , and lords are even holding meetings to get up Public Baths for the people 1 But the cricketing aud condescension comes too late . These things are very well in their place , as far as they go ; but they are no substitute for the natural right to an inalienable freehold which tbe people have found out is theirs during tho thirty or forty years' existence which centuries of oppression has left to them I
By perusing Mr . O'Connor ' s letters our readers will see the policy of the English working men uiidevthe difficulties which surround them , and may derive a useful lesson to spur them to . action before difficulties here thicken about them to the same extent . In one respect we are , worse off than they . The extent of our country is such that even now the expense of getting / to the land not monopolised places it out of the reach of those who are compelled to live from hand to mouth , ' and the difficulty is fast Increasing . The land is gradually receding from all but the capitalists . It costs more even now to get from the seaboard to our public lands than to get from Europe to this country ! ' And if the-further sale of these lands were permitted , our farmers and mechanics must gradually h . come worse ofi ' . ' tiU starvation stares every one of them in the fabo . ' - - ' - ' .
Mr . O'Connor tells tho 'English working men some plain truths respecting their want ' of' -tinion while their enemies are firmly banded together , which may bo read with much profit on this-side of the water . There they have many other difficulties to contend against ; but here this want of uuion is almost the only one . The vrailes of this city , and the useful classes thioughout the country , have full power to prevent the election of any man who is not pledged to the principle of a free soil , and they cannot much longer remain blind to this fact , There is reason to believe that the republication of our proceedings in England has inspirited our . brethren there in their movement , and I have no doubt that the reaction
will be reciprocal . Let it ever , be borne in mind that the interests of the landless on both sides ofthe water are closely connected , and . that their opponets are Land Monopolists ttteeeer / ouiid . The progress of Agrarian principle * in America is evidenced by the meetings held in different parts of the union in favour ofthe principles of the Reform Association : by thc movement amongst thc trades , several of whom have adopted the princi ples of the Agrarians , or given evidence that tbe time of adopting those principles cannot be far off ; and lastly , by the establishment ; of new papers in support of Agrarinnism , or the conversion of old papers to . its principles .. '
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Abebnetuy ' s File Oisiment . —Ono of the greatest legacies bequeathed to human kind , by the immortal Abernethy , was no doubt , his wonderful discovery for the infallible Cure of that most loathsome andpainful disease- ^ tbe piles . The proprietor of this valuable remedy , though under the treatment of several doctors , suffered intensely for many years with the piles , and occasional bearings-dawn ; " yet was nothing better , but , rather " grew worse , " until he applied to that eminent surgeon Mr . Abernethy , whose prescription completely cured bim . nand . 'l iassince proved its powers to . healimthohsands'if casesof piles ,- fistula , & c . ; In fact the medicai ; profeffiion ; Always Blow and unwilling to ^ acknowlcdge ^ vlrtues of arr / medicine not prepare $ byah ^ re ^ MPmending ; .:-. -. < lhe : Pile ^ Qiptment , as prepared froitfthe original prescription of that departed wonder of the age , Mr ,, Aberdethsl ; Sold in covered pots at 4 s . Cd . by aiy'espectabje . ehemists , and dealers in patent mediomer , ii 4 eviurj ' iH ** kettownthroughout the united kingdom :, .. „
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StRiKK on inc North British RwLWAT . —On Monday morning last , nearly five hundred men in the Cocltbumspath district , who have received fromMs . to 16 s . per week , - struck for an advance of wages to 20 s . Thisdemand being refused , thc men proceeded along the line towards Berwick , and compelled every man ivliom they in ' et to stop his work and join them . Where their commands were not promptly complied with , the mob carried them into effect by force , and , in consequence , the movement was joined by a great number of men along thc lino . About 1 , 400 men altogether struck work—an alarming state of , ' things certainly , when we consider that neither in this town nor within twenty miles is there any adequate military or civil force . About 400 of the meiv remained at Ay tonand several hundreds at other places On
, . Wednesday morning a number of the men assembled at the luring place for shearers , but would not allow them to bo hired except on their terms . The wages offered by the farmers were Is . Sd . per day , but the " navies" insisted that they should receive 3 s ., cither should not he hired at all . The magistrates , we understand , having taken into consideration the defenceless state of the town , and the facility with which such a body of men mi ght commit any outrage , baveresolvedtomakean application for a detachment of military to be . stationed at Berwick . On Wednesday a few of the men returned to their work on Mr . Dodds ' s contract , and on Thursday morning the greater number of Mr . Evans ' s men also returned . Ihey have not received any advance of wages . —Berwick Warder .
, Hom-oway s Oisiment and Pills . —Dreadful swellings in the whole body , accompanied with a loathsome skin disease , and their wonderful cure . —A child , five years of age , named Jones , whose parents live at No , i , llorse-shoc-alley , Wilson-street , Finsbtry London , was , from thc age of sixteen months , fearfully swollen in body , and covered with large sores . His face was frequently quite black like that of a black child ' s . He had been talren to all the hospitals , and most ofthe surgeons of eminence , but met with no relief . He has , however , just been radically cured by the means ofthe above invaluable medicines .
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. BANKRUrTS . ( From Friday ' s Gazette , September 5 th , ISiS . J Samuel Cullum , lligmcre , late of Haverill , Suffolk straw wiight-Hilham Menzies , Gloucester , drapcr-Bowland 1 . 11 ry Bangor , Caniarvons lire , flour-dealer-Joseph Dai . ton , Joseph Burn , and Robert Turpin , Xeweastle-upon-Tyneear thenware-manufacturers-Ricliard Mayer , LoiiKton , Stoke-uoon-Trent , dealer in ale .
BANKRUPTS . ( From Tuesday ' s Gazette , Sept . 9 , 1815 . 1 Stephen Davies , of Somerset-uharf , Bankable , Southwark and of Times-wharf , Wilton-road , Pimlico , coal merchant-Freaerick Ward , late of Rosomond-strcet , Clerkenwell , oilman . —John Savace , of Old Compton ! street , Soho-square , victuallcr .-Georgc Cox Plymouth victualler . —James Ramsden , sen ,, Avmlev . Leeds cloth " manufacturer and worsted spinner . * ' ' DIVIDENDS . James Southern , of Birmingham , grocer , second and final dividend of 5 Jd in the pound , payable at 27 Water loo-street , Birmingham , any Thursday after October G . ll amas LaUiH , of Nottingham , cabinet-maker , second and final dividend of yd in the pound , pavabic at ™ Waterloo-street , Birmingham , any Thursday after Ocl tober C . Nathaniel Neal Solly and Richard Solly , of Tividale Staffordshire , ironmasters , second and final dividend of Gd andl-SSthofapennyin the pound , payable at 27 , Fater loo-strect , Bii'ininfiham , any Thursday after October G
Ihomas Izon , of Handswoi'th , Staffordshire , merchant final dividend of 5-fiths of a penny in the pound payable at 27 . Waterloo-street , Birmingham , any Thursday after Octobers . Thomas Morris and William "Woodward , of Burslem Staffordshire , drapers , first dividend of 12 s fid in the pound , payable at 27 , Waterloo-street , Birmingham , any Thursday after October G . ' John Lamb and Thomas Lamb , of Kidderminster engineers , first dividend of 2 s 6 d in the pound , pavable at 27 , Waterloo-street , Birmingham , any Thursday after October 6 . Edward Robinson , of Wolverhampton , grocer , first dividend of 3 s . in the pound , payable at 27 , Waterloostreet , Birmingham , any Thursday after October G . Thomas Hall , of Great Ashby , Leicestershire , butcher , first dividend of 4 s 9 d in the pound , payable at 27 , Waterloo-street , Birmingham , any Thursday after October G .
DIVIDEND TO BE DECLAKED . At the Court of Bankruptcy , London , Barnard Benjamin Owen ' and Bernard George Owen , of Pall-mall , tailors , October 2 , at half-past twelve—George Nettlcton , of Brompton , Kent , tailor , October 2 , at one-Thomas Kewell Gorbell , of Bedford-place , Commercialroad , bookseller , October 2 , at twelve—John Stammer , of 17 , Charles-street , Grosvenor-square , brush dealer , October 2 . at half-past eleven—William Hill and William Kem-We Wackcrbath , of Leadenhall-street , Ciiy , ship agents , October 2 , at a ( uiftvtcv-p & st two—P . icVinrd TOunQcn , of Alton , LTampshire , plumber , October 2 , at eleven .
IN THE COUNTRY , Nathaniel Phillips , of Haverfordwest , banker , October 10 , at eleven , at tho Court of Bankruptcy , Bristol-Thomas Rees of Liverpool , brewer , October * ? , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Liverpool—John Scott , of Birmingham , gun maker , October 10 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Manchester—Conrad Haverkam Greenhow , of > orth Shields , ship broker , October 2 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Newcastle-upon-Tyne—Thomas Itevoly , jun ., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , plumber , October 2 , at eleven , at tlie Court of Bankruptcy , Newcastle-upon-Tyne—Robert Currie , ofyeweastle-upon-Tyne , bookseller , October 2 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Newcastle-upon-Tyne —John Lambert , of New Elvet , grocer , October 2 , at one , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Newcastle-upon-Tyne—Thomas Wright , of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , ship broker , October 2 , at two , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Newcastle-upon-Tyne—John Stainthorpe , of Hexham , Northumberland , common brewer , October 2 , at two , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Newcastle-upon-Tyne . Cebtificates to be granted , unless cause be shown to the contrary ou the day of meeting .
Henry Wood , of 21 , Abehureh-lane , andFarnliam-strect , Gravel-lane , Southwark , general agent , October 9 — William Matthews , of 42 , Lisson-grove North , Marylebone , pianoforte maker , October 2—Thomas Powell , of Alkvtov . Uywater , and late of Castleford , Yorkshire , brickmaker , October 3—Thomas Russell Creigh , of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , cartwright , October 2—William Richard Carscaden , of York , hosier , September SO—Manning Allen , of St . Helen's , Lancashire , butcher , September 3 d—Henry James Witehell , of Carnarvon , bookseller , September 30—Joseph Spencer , jun ., of Liverpool , builder , October 1—Geovge . Laurie , of Fleetwood upon-Wyre , Lancashire , chemist , October 1—John Aldcroft , of Longsight , Lancashire , victualler , October 2 . Certificates to he granted by the Court of Review , unless cause be shown to the contrary , on or before Sept . 30 , Thom ' asJClarkson , jun ., of 10 a , Charles-street , Middlesex Hospiwl . ' upholsterer ' s warehouseman—Joseph Lewis , of Birmingham , card manufacturer—William M'Alpine , of Liverpool , -tailor—Frederick Lindsay Cole , of 101 , Fenchurch-strect ; City , wine merchant—John Cummins , of Weymouth ; -Dorsetshire , bookseller—John Ifurnival , of Kettering , Northamptonshire , corndealer .
? ABTNEBSH 1 PS DISSOLVED . John Lloyd , and Richard Knight Parker , of Lower Homerton , Hackney , builders—James Holbeck and John Jennens , of 21 , Princes-street , Hanover-square , gold lacemen—Richard Figg Hews and George Hews , of Storrington , Sussex , tailors ^ Thomas Martin Ilden Tilby and George Robert Clover , of Liverpool , metal merchants-William Walker , surgeon , and Henry Walker , chemist , of 58 and 59 , St . John-street , Clerkenwell—Mary Hodgson and Anne Jane ; Hodgson , of Liverpool , boot and shoemakers—William . Haimes and Thomas Haimes , of Melbourne , Derbyshire , lace-glove manufacturers— Churles l ? aivcloth and Abraham Amstrong , of Lad-lane , City ,
accountants—Hugh Kennedy and James Kennedy , of faunton , drapers—John Webster and Thomas Staley , of Stockport , grocers—Robert Johnstone , Webster Ffockton , and James Williamson Brooke , owners of a patent for the manufacturing of lamps for the combustion of naptha , & c . —William Wilson Hyde , John Hugall Dutchman , and Charles Johnson , of Hull , auctioneers—Thomas Smith , Charles Jam-s Coates , and Benjamin Bell , of 11 , Waterr lane , Great Tower-street , City , ship and insurance brokers ( so far as regards Charles James Coates)—David Duekett and ' Henry' l ' almer , of Brighton , linendrapers—Joseph Henderson , sen ., and Joseph Henderson , jun ., of Taunton , mercers—I ' cter Pearce and Wniiam Ciiatcr , of Haverhill , Suffolk , grocers .
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Manchester Corn Market , Saturday , Sept . G . The weather since our last report , though at times cold and glocmy , has continued of a favourable character for securing the harvest , which we hear on all hands is now making rapid progress . The trade during the week has consequently remained in the same inanimate state as previously noted , and the general tendency of prices was towards a further decline . At our market this rooming the transactions in wheat were on an exceedingly limited scale . Irish might have been purchased at an abatement of 2 d . to 3 d . per 701 bs „ and other sorts barely supported the currency of this day se nnight . Flour likewise moved off very slowly , the few sales effected being at a reduction of Is . per sack . Oats receded in value Id . to 2 tl . per 451 bs . ; and oatmeal Is . per load , with but little demand for either article . New oatmeal brought 29 s . to 29 s . Cd . per 2401 bs .
Leeus Corn Market , Tuesday , Septemdkr 0 . — "With moderate arrivals to-tiaytho trade is firm for wheat , but the demand still continues exceedingly limited , from the difficulty the millers experience in moving their stocks of flour . The supply of oats is small , and they are held for higher pri : es . Beans and peas are also scarce and fully as dear . In tbe value of barley or other articles no alteration . The weather continues as fine as could he irishcd . Leeds Cloth Markets . — -The trade in the cloth markets since the late change in the weather , continues in a prosperous state , business being good both at the Cloth Halls and the warehouses—manufacturers are well employed . - « -.. ¦ ' .
York Corn Market , Sept . 6 . —The weather being remarkably fine for harvest operations , and our farmers being all engaged , wc bave but a very few samples of grain offering . We experience a very firm trade for wheat at a decline of Is . to 2 s . per quarter ; other articles without any material alteration . . . . Ricumokd Corn Markxt , Sbft , 0 . —The weather has been very favourable this week , and our market to-day has been tolerably supplied with grain . Wheat sold from 7 s . to 8 s . Oats 3 s . to 4 s . Barley % to . 4 s . 3 d . Beans 5 s . to 5 s . Su . per bushel . - - - .
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Liverpool Corit Market , Monday , September - a —Wchave this weeks fair arrival " of oats , flour , and oatmeal from Ireland , but of wheat it is very small . The chief import from abroad is of Canadian flour , of which we have had li , S 5 i barrels . -The duty on foreign wheat has declined to 17 s . per quarter , and on flour to 10 s . 2 Jd . per barrel ; that on beans haa fallen to Is . Cd . per quarter . With exceedingly fineweather the whole of tho past week , a considerable , portion of tbe grain in'this district has been cut , andl some quantity earrtod , in better order and condition ; than was anticipated . Thc reports from . the southern counties , however , speak less favourable of tho
yield and quality of tho new wheat , and though wo have had no particular animation in our market , the trade bas assumed a decidedly better tone . Several parcels of Irish wheat and Canadian flour have been taken for investment during the week , at fully Tnesciay spnees . Ao transactions have occurred in bonded , i'he demand for oats and oatmeal has been circumscribed , and prices have a downward tendency . Tho decline of duty on foreign beans to within Cd . per qr , of tlie lowest point , has thrown some quantity of Egyptian on the free market , and thev are offered at 33 s . to 33 s . Cd . per 4 S 0 ibs . Peas , barley , and Indian corn have had a moderately fair sale for ' f ' eeding purposes , and are withoutalterationin value . v
Liverpool Cattle Market , Monday , ' September 8 . —The supply of cattle at market to-day has been rather smaller than last week . The greatest portion of second-rate quality—any thing good eagerly sought after , and sold at high prices . Beef 5 Jd . to Cd ., mutton Cd . to 7 d ., lamb Old . to 7 d . per lb . Cattle imported into Liverpool from the 1 st to the 8 th of September : —cows , 3000 ; calves , -27 ; sheep , 10 . 32 S ; lambs , 3 C 37 ; pigs , 4509 ; horses , 30 . . " Malton Corn Market , Sept . C—Wc have very thin attendance at market-to-day , and only a little grain offering of any description ; wheat was soldi rather below last week ' s rates ; in oatswcmako no alteration ; barley nominal . Wheat , red , 52 a ia 5 Ss ; white ditto , 56 s to Gis per quarter ' of forty stones ; oats , 10 id to Hid per stone .
London Corn Exchange , Moxday , Sept . S .- Througbout the whole of last week there were regular supplies of nearly all sorts of grain , consisting , however , principally of English and Foreign , with but little of either Scotch or Irish . Altogether the supply of Foreign wheat was large , about a fourth of which was from Dantzic , and 11 , 000 quarters from Stettin . With flour tho market continues to bo bub moderately supplied , home manufacture constituting the sole arrival . On the several market days a faiu amount of business was transacted , wheat realising fully Monday ' s quotations , and other grain also making firm rates . Advices from all parts continue to speak of the favourable progression of the hai'vest , aud the weather- having been uninterruptedly line enabled tho farmers to use all practicable diligence for securing their crops . At present no lair estimate can be formed of which are the favoured districts , but that the wheat docs come down verv various in
its quality , as also in heaviness , is now an ascertained fact , and which must tend , although perhaps at a . distant period , to exercise an influence over quotations . The crops of barley and oats , particularly the former , are generally throughout the country abundant , and prices mustrulelowfor thescgrains during the greater part of the coming year . Beans are not well spoken of , and peas of all sorts are but a small and unsatisfactory yield . This morning there was a fair supply of wheat fresh up from Essex and Suffolk , but not much from Kent , and prices have ranged firm at the rates of this day week , and in sonic instances A trifling advance has toon obtained . Barley commands a steady sale for immediate wants , at steady rates . The oat trade is fully as good for all sorts , and there has been a fair country demand . Beans and peas thc fame as last week . There was a fair arrival of mustard , but not much other seeds at market , which was taken off at the prices of this day week—quality various .
CURRENT PRICES OF GRAIN , PER IMPERIAL QUARTER . —JBrittsft . SB b Wheat , Essex , < fc Kent , new & old red 46 56 White 50 GO Norfolk and Lincoln . ... do 49 55 Ditto 50 58 -Northum . and Scotch white 49 56 1 'ine 50 57 Irish red old 0 0 Red 48 51 White 52 56 Bye Old ..... . 29 82 Xew 119 80 Brank 31 38 Barley Grinding . . 2 ( i 27 Distil . 28 30 Malt . 31 S 3 Malt Brown .... 52 51 Pale 55 59 Ware CO 6 U Beans Ticks old & new 37 38 Harrow 38 40 Pigeon 41 42 Peas Grey 35 83 AI .-u ) le 37 38 White 38 40 Oats Lineolus & Yorkshire 1 ' eed 23 24 Poland 24 as Scotch Angus 23 25 Potato 26 2 a Irish . ' . . , White 20 23 Black 20 22 Pev 2801 b . net . s s . rei-2 S 0 lb . net . s a Town-made 1 'lcur ... 51 53 Norfolk & Stockton 3 G 38 Essex and Kent .... 38 42 Irish ....... 37 39
Iroe . Bond , Foreign . s b s s Wheat , Dantsic , Komgatmrg , « to 59 Oil 4 'i lli Marks , Mecklenburg ........ 5 ( 1 OS 32 3 d Ihmisu , Holstcin , and If rieshnul red 18 52 23 3 t Russian , Hard 48 52 Soft ... 48 52 28 30 Italian , Red . . 50 52 White ... 54 58 82 29 Spanish , Hard . 50 02 Soft .... 52 52 31 35 Rye , Baltic , Dried , ... 28 SO Uudvied . . 25 Viu » 3 31 Barley , Grinding . 24 2 G Malting . . 28 30 19 U Beans , Ticks . . 3 i 30 Egyptian . 81 35 28 24 Peua , Wliite , . 87 39 Maple . . 3 ( i 37 28 32 Oats , Dutch , Brew and Thick 23 25 20 30 Russian feed 20 22 11 22 Danish , 1 ' riesland feed 20 22 14 1 G If lour , per barrel 28 So 21 27
AVERAGE TRICES Of the last six weeks , which regulate the Duties from the 1 th to the 10 th of Scijteinbcr .
, Whadujaiiey, Uats.. Jfye. Weans, L'Eas...
, WhadUJaiiey , Uats .. Jfye . weans , l ' eas . , s . ( 1 . s . d . s . < l . i s . d . s . d . s . d , Week ending July 26 , 1845 .. 51 7 29 2 22 5 81 7 10 3 88 10 Week ending Aug . 2 , 1845 .. 53 3 29 8 22 5 34 C 40 5 11 0 Week ending I Aug . 9 , 1845 .. 5 a S 29 7 22 8 33 lu It 0 39 O Week ending ^ Aug . 16 , 1843 .. 57 0 29 4 22 z \ U i 41 i : 39 T Week ending I Aug . 23 , 1845 .. 57 0 29 9 22 8133 41 il S SS H Week ending I Aug . 30 , 1815 .. 56 C 30 0 22 1 ) 35 7 12 1 38 i
Aggregate average of the last six weeks .. 55 1 29 r 22 6 33 10 41 1 33 3 London averages ( ending Aug . 26 , 1815 ) GO 0 30 51 22 6 34 9 1111 10 3 Duties .. .. 17 0 9 01 6 0 9 C 1 C 3 ( J
Imports srom Accost 81 to Sevtembeu 7 , inclusi-vb , ESGWSII SCOTCH . WISH . FOREIGN TOTA & . Wheat .. .. 11 , 647 SO 0 3 , 861 15 , 558 Barlov .. .. 76 0 1 , 625 1 , 350 3 , 051 Oats .. .. 11 0 20 , 034 11 , 931 81 , 979 Rye .... 0 0 0 0 0 Beans .. .. 804 0 0 0 304 Pens .. .. S 58 0 0 58 418 Malt .. .. 5 , 349 0 ' 1 « 0 3 , 559 Tares .. .. 0 0 0 0 0 Linseed .. 0 0 5 i ) l , 8 ui > 1 , 90 » Ilancseed 20 0 0 27 IT Flour , sacks 5 , 340 0 KG 0 5 , 010 Ditto hrls . 0 0 0 0 0
London Smitutiei.D Catim Market, - Moxda...
London Smitutiei . d Catim Market , - Moxda y , Sept . S . —The imports of Continental cattle during last week have been heavy , particularly of sheep , of which the number , according to one ol the official returns , exceeds 1 , 000 head . The returns in full are respectively—14 G head of oxon , 14 cows , C 31 sheep , 11 lambs , 39 calves , and two fjoats ; and 317 head of oxen and cows , 1 , 107 sheep , 41 calves , and two goats . The following statement of the imports ot boreign cattle for the present year , as made up and corrected ! to last Saturday week , is taken from an othciat
source : — . „ , Oxen Sheep and and Coivs .. Larnl ) S . london - - from Jan . 1 to Aug .-- . 30 , 181 D 5 , 0 H 2 , 314 i Liverpool . from Jan . 1 to Aug . SVJSla 10 s Unit - - -from Jan . 1 to Au ^ 30 , Ififtf 2 , ' M iM . Southparaton from Jan , 1 to Aug . 3 t > , lSlo *& — The tone of trade at Smithficld this morning was much the same as that of last Monday . Business ,. without being particularly M \ , was not , what it lat r teriy has been , and prices , though in most cases higher than at corresponding periods for several years past , not so high as they have been . The stock ot sheep is now , ot * coarse , greatly increased by the lambs ot this vear ; and , consequently , less scarcity is felt tor a continued supp ly of mutton . This may . be assigned as one reason of the decline in the rates tor sheep . The number of sheep and lambs in ¦ the market ;
today , though not by about 1 , 000 eoual to last Monday a return , was still larger than the average supply tor some months . Of beasts there was also a plentiful number in the market , and of calves- and pigs about an average number . The beef trade was if anything , i shade lower than on this day sc- ' Migbt . as the best Sc % made but 4 s . per stone , whkh is 2 d , lower on that dav . For middling and inferior qualities , however , no change occurred . The- supply comprised 3 100 head of about an average condition . J . be number of sheep returned as toll paid was 27 , 480 ; tho sale of which was much the same as last week . Price ^ remained unaltered at the decline wjiicli took nlaoj on last Monday , and a clearance ; was not euestedv Prime Downs made 4 s . 10 d ., afdpollcd ewes 3 s ,. 8 d ., which arc the highest and lowest prices of tho day . Veal sold steadily at from 4 s . to 5 s . The better quality of lamb and pork made 2 d . per stone more than , last Monday , but othcrwiso prices wereiunaltered . ¦
By the quantities of Sib . } sinking the offal . ,, . . s . d . : « . . -. . «> . Inferior coarso beasts . . . 2 6 :. f-vJ Seeondquality • • . « 3 ?¦ ¦¦¦ '•?• -: « ¦ Prime large oxen . . . ' " 3 C ' , ' . ' *¦' ¦ " * . Prime Scots , & c . . . ' - . . . 3 10 4 0 Coarso inferior sheep . .: ¦• » : 5- ' . - '" - '* J- '' . % Second quaUty . . i v " j '' " * - ' - * Prime coarso woolled , , . , * ' * i ?' "' -t '„ Prime Southdown . . . . . * ¦ °$ iij * *} Lambs ... . . ... . * .. ** : ]¦ : ; # ' .. ' |' large coarse calves . . ' . ? ' 5- ' }"' «' Prime small ... •'•' , ; « « S Suckling calves , each . . . 18 0 , 30 0 Largehogs : . • • • * "¦ * - - ' »' .. ' "' Neat small porkers , , , , 3 10 . 4 , 4 Quarter-old store pigs , each ., , 16 0 2 Q . Q
HEAD OS CATTLE OH BkVB . .- »¦ .... ( From the Books ofthe Clerk ofthe Market . ) : •' . . - Beasts , 3 , 271-Sheep and Lambs , 33 , 700—Calves , 1 W «* Pigs , 110 . . "
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 13, 1845, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_13091845/page/7/
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